10 August 2026
Western United's faint hopes of revival have been all but extinguished after the A-League terminated their participation agreement on Monday.
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10 August 2026
An adaptation of the Miles Franklin classic My Brilliant Career will come to Netflix this week, with members of the cast and crew saying the defiance in this production lives in the expansion of the world Franklin created.
10 August 2026
Three weeks ago, Origin Energy announced that 900,000 current and former customers had their personal data accessed. What have we learnt about our data safety online since?
10 August 2026
Exclusive: Adira says she doesn’t know much about her target countries or even know who their leaders are. Instead she’s chasing money from Meta, which pays for engagement From her home in West Java, Adira* often starts the day with a Facebook post about coffee and the busy day ahead. Then she gets to work. In a Facebook group called Team Pauline Hanson, she shares a photo of the Australian senator and One Nation leader and asks its almost 26,000 members for thoughts about Hanson’s comments about Islam and Australia’s way of life.
10 August 2026
Today we have an op-ed by Newton Davis, co-founder of Janus, a fintech focused on shipment-level financial clarity for ocean & air freight forwarders, and Raoul Wintjes, head of international road haulage, air freight & digitalisation at DSLV, the Association for Freight Forwarding and Logistics Germany. Somewhere inside every freight forwarder’s operation is a system that almost no one outside the industry has heard of – and that almost no one ... The post An open-source TMS: the machine room must be open appeared first on The Loadstar .
10 August 2026
Water levels along the Rhine are continuing to fall, as repeated heatwaves across Europe prolong drought, with shipping bosses now warning the river could effectively be being “split in two”, as carriers slap new surcharges on all modes. MSC announced on Friday it had introduced a wave of “traffic congestion surcharges” for rail, trucking, and rail-truck transport from/to Antwerp and Rotterdam via Andernach, Frankfurt, Germersheim Munich, Nurnberg, Neuss, Strasbourg, Trier, and ... The post Congestion fear as ‘unnavigable’ Rhine means cargo shift to road and rail appeared first on The Loadstar .
10 August 2026
Iran attacked another ADNOC vessel in the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend, with the Houthis simultaneously striking Saudi Arabia’s energy infrastructure. The UAE said an ADNOC-owned vessel was hit by an Iranian missile early on Saturday while transiting Hormuz. No casualties were reported and ADNOC said the situation was brought under control. The UAE …
10 August 2026
Iran aims to put pressure on Trump amid negotiations with Oman, Labor Department to release new report on inflation, new report reveals decades of abuse at arts school linked to Epstein.
